Rose Sniffers

Rose Sniffers


Life goes fast

in case 
you had not
noticed

Looking back

when we were
young and full
of future

time was but
a number 
on the clock

We learn by living

Life goes fast

The funerals I attend

increase with the
passing years

and death

once horrifying

now

less shocking

Perspective picked
up along the way

like the bad habits
we accumulate

like the heavy baggage
weighing down 
our scarred hearts

Life goes fast

We trudge through 
our charade parade
with heads down

Fixated on our
trivial obsessions

all the battles fought

bringing us back from
whence we started

blind
to the magic that
surrounds us

we miss riding the
carousel on a steamy
Summer's night

love lost
at the bridge
we would not cross

Life goes fast!!

in the blink of an eye

as the mourner's cry

for their own lost mortality